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Syntax Reading Group – 6 October

We are restarting our glorious syntax reading group! The SRG will meet monthly at alternate days (first Friday and first Thursday); we will read papers in preparation for the SIL talks, so that we can engage better with the speakers and enjoy and understand the talks much better. We will meet on our old Teams…

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Morphology as Syntax (MaS 3)

(Please note that the times are all in EST/Montreal!) The purpose of this workshop is to investigate the relationship between morphology and syntax, and in particular to investigate the extent to which morphological generalizations can be accounted for in terms of purely syntactic operations and conditions.  Can morphology and syntax be unified under purely Merge…

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MiMA midway workshop on 10 November

We are excited to invite you to the official midway workshop of the Mind your Manner Adverbials! project at Utrecht University! The MiMA team is proud to host this workshop to share its first findings and gather feedback, but also give the floor to others to present current work in the domains of manner and/or comparative adverbial morpho-syntax. Please…

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SIL talk: Elisabeth Kerr

Dear all, We are pleased to announce you that the first Syntax Interface Lecture of the season will take place on Thursday September 14th from 16:00 until 17:00 both on site (Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06) and on our Syntax Interface Lectures team on MS Teams. We will host a talk by Elisabeth Kerr (Leiden…

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Norbert Corver – 60 – workshop – July 10 2023

Slight change in the program (see below) Dear friends and colleagues of Norbert, For Norbert’s 60th birthday we, his colleagues from Dutch linguistics and his current PhD-students, organize an afternoon with lectures and we invite you all to join us for some linguistic merriment. The workshop will take place on Monday July 10th from 1400-1700…

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LOT Schultink Memorial lecture: Alec Marantz

During this years LOT Summer School, we will have the pleasure of hosting the Schultink Lecture to be delivered by Alec Marantz (NYU). The school will last for the two first weeks of July, the lecture taking place during the second week.   Date:    July 13 Time:    4:30 PM Place:   Drift 21,…

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